Workato glossary

Actions: Actions carry out an operation in your target app, such as a create, update, or search operation. Each action requires a set of input fields and typically returns data, for example, an output data tree.

Connections: The building blocks of recipes. Connectors are comprised of authentication configurations, triggers, and actions for a specific third-party application. Documentation will often refer to these as “apps”.

Datapill: Datapills are output data from a trigger or an action step. They are variables that you can use to map business logic into recipe steps.

Jobs: A subunit of a recipe that includes processing a trigger event and running a series of actions.

Recipes: The Workato automated workflows. Recipes can trigger actions to pull data from a data source, retry actions when errors occur, and send events to Tealium. Data Connect users can create, edit, delete, and run recipes depending on their permissions settings.

Steps: Recipe steps can be actions, or control flow statements that help you describe business logic. Examples of steps in a Tealium recipe are: action steps, repeat steps, handle errors steps.

Task: A sub-unit of a recipe that requires computational resources. For example, each connector action (batch processing, emailing results, error handling, etc.) counts as one task. A recipe job may consist of more than one task and the number of tasks depend on the recipe logic and data of the trigger event.

Each Data Connect account has a task limit for all profiles in that account. Contact support for more information about Data Connect task limits.

Triggers: Determine what events to listen for to execute the actions described in a recipe. Triggers can be real-time or scheduled.

For more information about Workato terms, see Concepts in the Workato documentation.